12 Bible Verses about Stumbling Blocks

Therefore, let's no longer criticize each other. Instead, make up your mind not to put a stumbling block or hindrance in the way of a brother.

And one has said: "Build up! Build up the road! Prepare the highway! Remove every obstacle from my people's way.'

but we preach the Messiah crucified. He is a stumbling block to Jews and nonsense to gentiles,

But I have a few things against you: You have there some who hold to the teaching of Balaam, the one who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the people of Israel so that they would eat food sacrificed to idols and practice immorality.

"You are not to curse a deaf person or put a stumbling block before the blind. "You are to fear God. I am the LORD.

For the lips of a priest should preserve knowledge, and people should seek instruction from his mouth, because he's the messenger of the LORD of the Heavenly Armies.

"But you priests turned aside from the way, and by your teaching you caused many to stumble. You have violated the covenant of Levi," says the LORD of the Heavenly Armies.

But Jesus turned and told Peter, "Get behind me, Satan! You are an offense to me, because you are not thinking God's thoughts but human thoughts!"

"How terrible it will be for you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the door to the kingdom from heaven in people's faces. You don't go in yourselves, and you don't allow those who are trying to enter to go in.

How terrible it will be for you experts in the Law! You have taken away the key to knowledge. You didn't go in yourselves, and you kept out those who were trying to go in."

But you must see to it that this right of yours does not become a stumbling block for those who are weak.

The person who loves his brother abides in the light, and there is no reason for him to stumble.